Which sentence best describes the enlightenment idea of the "social contract"? a. people must separate church and state in all levels of government. b. people of different cultures, beliefs, and ideas have equal value. c. people must use reason and intellect in order to find truth. d. people give up some rights in order to have other rights protected.

D. People give up some rights in order to have other rights protected.

Explanation:

The social contract was published by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1762, with the title "The social contract: or the principles of political law". It consists of four books of political philosophy in which Rousseau talks about the equality and freedom of all citizens within a State formed through "a social contract" between those who compose it.

In this context, Rousseau deals with various political theory issues and explains the origin and purpose of the State and human rights. Proposing that to live in society, human beings agree on an implicit social contract that grants them certain rights in exchange for abandoning the freedom they would have in a state of nature.